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Article: HIGH ON HORSEPOWER
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2000
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In the Andalucian Sierra de Aracena JASPER WINN goes long-
distance on real horses for real riders
FOREIGN car rental and hire horses are very alike. With the former
you always hope you're going to get the keys to a drop-head coup"
BMW, imagining yourself purring along the Corniche with the mistral
in your hair. In reality you're given a Fiat Punto with a broken
radio and a bald spare tyre.
Mainly, of course, because that's what you paid for. In turn,
horse holidays abroad always hold the promise of taking the reins to
a Lusitano stallion, or at least a dressage-quality warmblood, with a
mouth like silk on the bit and the paces of a tango dancer. The
reality is nearly always a shaggy, ...